Define "Internet". They had to drop URDP and Sunrise from the dotUS proposal (or in the alternative, could have applied to Congress for a variance) because access to a public resource cannot discriminate against any of the groups that own that resource, in this case the US people. So if the ccTLDs are treated as public resources under the control of national governments, that part certainly cannot be said to be an interconnected private network. Who owns the 13 root servers?
Regards, Joanna > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ken > Freed > Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 4:06 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [IFWP] Re: ICANN President proposes end to At-Large public > elections > > > Did not the funds originally come from the government > Doesn't that make the Internet, defacto, public property? > I have great respect for Tony, but construing the net as > private has caused more harm than good, i.e., ICANN. > -- ken > > > > > > > >At 01:02 PM 3/1/02 -0700, you wrote: > >>Note: There was never a public vote to privatise the Internet, > >>which is (was) public property. > > > >No, it's not. It's a set of interconnected *private* networks. > > > >Tony Rutkowski went to a lot of effort to make sure the Internet > >was, in a formal telecommunications legal sense a "private" network. > > > >If it's a "public" network" (as the MoU people kept asserting) then > >the ITU has dominion over it. That's why Tony did what he did. > > > > > >-- > > Don't think that a small group of dedicated individuals can't > > change the world. It's the only thing that ever has. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > >
